Prabhākaramitra

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English Phonetics	Prabhākaramitra
Chinese Script	波羅頗迦羅蜜多羅
Chinese Transliteration	Boluopojialuomiduoluo
Japanese Transliteration	Harahakaramitsutara
Korean Transliteration	Parap’agaramiltara

Dates

Birth:	564
Death:	633

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Rab Jyung

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Rab Jyung

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Buddha Nature Project

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Prabhākaramitra. (C. Boluopojialuomiduoluo; J. Harahakaramitsutara; K. Parap’agaramiltara 波羅頗迦羅蜜多羅) (564-633). A monk from Nālandā monastery who traveled to China in 626, where he translated a number of important texts, including the Mahāyānasūtrālaṃkāra of Maitreyanātha and the Prajñāpradīpa of Bhāvaviveka. (Source: "Prabhākaramitra." In The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, 653. Princeton University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n41q.27.)

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All beings have Buddha-nature
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་)
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Refers to something that is taught for a specific reason, rather than because it is entirely true.

Along with Madhyamaka, it was one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Asaṅga and Vasubandhu around the fourth century CE, many of its central tenets have roots in the Saṃdhinirmocanasūtra and the so-called third turning of the dharma wheel (see tridharmacakrapravartana).

Along with Yogācāra, it is one of the two major philosophical schools of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Founded by Nāgārjuna around the second century CE, it is rooted in the Prajñāpāramitā Sūtras, though its initial exposition was presented in Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā.

The state of being devoid of that which is wholly different rather than being void of its own nature. The term is generally used to refer to the ultimate, or buddha-nature, being empty of other phenomena such as adventitious defiling emotions but not empty of its true nature.

The state of being empty of self, which references the lack of inherent existence in relative phenomena.

Tsen Khawoche's "meditative tradition" of exegesis of the Uttaratantra; it is one of two major Tibetan traditions of exegesis, both stemming from students of Sajjana.